[Leica] An impulse purchase that worked out great

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I picked up one last week as well. A Fuji dealer in Hyderabad was giving up his dealership (for some strange reason, they have priced their wares very high here, around 15% above US prices, so they hardly sell), and had lenses to sell. So, I picked up three lenses, the 10-24mm f4, the 27mm pancake, and the 35mm f1.4, all in their shrink wrap boxes for US$1400, a good bargain, around 40% discount to list here, reached after some email and telephone haggling. We are now negotiating the 23mm f1.4, but no deal has been reached as yet.....

The 27mm pancake will be used by son # 1, Siddharta, who likes compact lenses on his XE-1, as he photographs often when cycling.

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 24-Jul-2016, at 06:10, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> After seeing some really sharp images by Jim Nichols, taken with the Fuji X 27mm lens, I decided to pick one up, taking advantage of a very low price at B&H and the fact that my son was coming over so he could bring it with him, thus bypassing Spanish customs and saving me international shipping. I paid around $300 for it, and after having taken several hundred images with this lens, I have to say that it is the best bargain in photography right. The small size (it is basically a pancake lens) combined with amazing image quality has made it my favorite Fuji lens right now. The only thing I do not like about it is the absence of an old-fashioned aperture ring, so you have to set the aperture using the dial on the camera. But aside from that, this is a lens that I would take to the proverbial desert island.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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